Word: toughers
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Consumer groups are starting to lobby for tougher legislative restrictions on the loans, including interest-rate caps and more truth in advertising. A spokesman for the American Bankers Association, a lobbying group, responds that "it's not in the banks' interest to fool or abuse their customers." Lenders point out that so far the 30-day delinquency rate on home-equity loans is only .74%, compared with 3.47% for traditional mortgages...
...telephone companies and 20 long-distance carriers, including AT&T, US Sprint and MCI, joined forces to form a group called the Communications Fraud Control Association, which now includes a number of other phone companies. The association's mission: to help crack down on the growing practice by urging tougher laws and stricter law enforcement...
...promised to make tough points and ask even tougher questions. For their part, his Soviet hosts had made it clear that they held him accountable for "frictions" in Franco-Soviet relations. Thus it came as no surprise last week that French Premier Jacques Chirac's visit to Moscow got off to a sharply contentious start...
...retreat from democratic reform presents a dilemma. Some Washington officials claim that the U.S. is unwilling to punish South Korea's political abuses because any action might weaken the country militarily or economically. Yet other observers of U.S. foreign policy are seriously wondering whether Washington's failure to take tougher stands against South Korea's government might itself be contributing to the country's underlying problem. Says Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz, chairman of the Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee: "The people of South Korea should know that we Americans don't countenance the continued denial of democracy...
...This kind of legislation is good because it really affects the bottom line for businesses--dollars and cents," Vilakazi said. "We support sanctions and anything that makes it tougher for companies to do business as usual," he said...